The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions SPARK Matrix™ provides competitive analysis & ranking of the leading B2B Price Optimization and Management Application vendors 16 June 2022: Quadrant Knowledge Solutions announced today that it has published SPARK Matrix analysis of the global B2B Price Optimization and Management Application market.
The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix™: B2B Price Optimization and Management Application research study includes a detailed analysis of global market dynamics, major trends, vendor landscape, and competitive positioning. The study provides competitive analysis and ranking of the leading B2B Price Optimization and Management Application vendors in the form of its SPARK Matrix. It gives strategic information for users to evaluate different vendor capabilities, competitive differentiation, and market position.
According to Preshit Parab, analyst at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions “A B2B Price Optimization and Management Application (PO&MA) enables organizations to focus on strategizing a well-determined pricing optimization method that aids them in understanding how customers react to various products prices, optimizing margin percentage, increase customer engagement and customer retention to meet business goals. Organizations are focusing on adopting advanced B2B Price Optimization and Management Applications (PO&MA) that can predict and navigate prices based on dynamic market scenarios.” Preshit further adds “B2B PO&MA vendors are progressively enhancing their solutions with comprehensive AI/ML capabilities for price optimization and delivering value-based pricing to the customers.”
AB2B Price Optimization and Management Application’s key value propositions, such as data integration and price management capabilities, a price simulation engine, real-time recommendations, and AI-driven analytics, to reduce customer churn, enhance customer experience, and increase customer acquisition and retention, are driving the technology’s market growth across geographies and industry segments. The application provides comprehensive and actionable insights regarding customers’ purchasing patterns, behavior, and market price fluctuations. Furthermore, the platform can proactively identify opportunities for organizations to gain a competitive advantage over customer demand at various stages of the product lifecycle and meet the demands with the appropriate pricing and marketing tactics, resulting in the achievement of the organization’s objectives.
The research includes detailed competition analysis and vendor evaluation with the proprietary SPARK Matrix analysis. SPARK Matrix includes ranking and positioning of leading B2B Price Optimization and Management Application vendors with a global impact. The SPARK Matrix includes an analysis of vendors, including Bubo.AI, Model N, Nomis Solutions, Periscope by McKinsey, PriceEdge, Pricefx, Pricemoov, PROS, SPOSEA, Syncron, Vendavo, Vistex, Vistaar and Zilliant.
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Quadrant Knowledge Solutions is a global advisory and consulting firm focused on helping clients as a strategic knowledge partner in achieving business transformation goals with Strategic Business and Growth Advisory Services. Quadrant’s research and consulting deliverables are designed to provide comprehensive information and strategic insights for helping clients formulate growth strategies to survive and thrive in ever-changing business environments.
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Plumbing | April 5, 2017
Maintain Your Drain! Preventing Household ClogsOur kitchen and bathroom sinks handle all types of clog-inducing gunk: hair, soap, grease, food waste, and more. No matter how many precautions you take with what you put down your drain, it still may begin to slow down over time. Follow these simple drain maintenance tips to prevent drain buildup and clogs before they even form: Use Rescue Rooter® DrainRight® Drain Maintainer.DrainRight® delivers a special formula that prevents clogs beforethey form by liquefying and dispersing grease, soap scum, food residue and additional waste buildup. Use a screen or drain-grate.Screens and drain-grates cover the drain’s opening and minimize blockages caused by hair and soap scum, while also preventing buildup from collecting. To keep your screen or drain-grate operating properly, flush hot water down your drains once a week to assist in dissolving grease, soap scum and additional waste. Clean with vinegar and baking soda.Pour 1/2 cup of baking soda into the drain followed by 1 cup of distilled white vinegar as a quick and non-toxic way to clear accumulating buildup. After you seal the drain with a stopper, allow the mixture to sit in the drain for thirty minutes and the resulting foam will help loosen and remove clogs. Have your home plumbing system inspected.Once every six months to a year, hire a plumber to snake your home’s drain lines for any buildup that can lead to a clog.


A lot of products, like the new eye drops Pataday, are now available as daily treatments. Prescription antihistamines like Allegra, Zyrtec and Clarinex are also very good. Over-the-counter products like Claritin may not be as effective. A longer-term option is weekly allergy shots, which are wonderfully effective but require a time commitment.
Dr. Beth Corn
Chief of Allergy Asthma Clinic
Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Tax avoidance and evasion are common terms, but they’re often confused. There is a key difference between these terms. One means finding ways to avoid paying taxes where someone doesn’t need to. The other is a white collar crime that carries heavy consequences in the Michigan courts.
Avoidance
Tax avoidance follows the letter of the laws set out by the Internal Revenue Code and state tax laws. Businesses can use a lot of different strategies to avoid paying taxes where they legally don’t need to. This is where a professional tax preparer can prove helpful. They know the tax code and should be able to find ways that a business can legally minimize the amount they owe for taxes. Some ways this happens include tax deductions, deferral plans and tax credits. For example, a retirement account like a 401k delays taxes on income used as a contribution until a later date.
One of the defining parts of legal tax avoidance is that everything filed for taxes is truthful and transparent. The taxpayer does not hide anything from the IRS or the state.
Evasion
Tax evasion involves using illegal methods to get out of paying taxes. Tax evasion often looks like hiding income or misrepresenting that income. Some examples include hiding assets, misrepresenting deduction amounts or hiding money in international bank accounts. Intentionally not paying taxes owed is one of many white collar crimes that the federal government takes seriously. Depending on the case, an individual may face $250,000 in fines while a corporation may face up to $500,000 in fines. This white collar crime may also lead to up to five years of imprisonment.
Tax evasion stands in stark contrast with tax avoidance. The end goal for both evasion and avoidance is the same. Businesses want to pay less in taxes. However, tax avoidance means truthfully reporting income and finding legal strategies for minimizing the amount owed in taxes, evasion breaches trust.


Intensive land use, depopulation of rural areas and job insecurity caused by rising production costs, have left the countryside vulnerable.
To ensure the viability of rural communities is essential to guarantee the sustainability of natural resources and prevent the social, economic, and environmental consequences of letting rural life decay.
With this objective, a consortium of industry, academics, and civil society launched the Next Generation Farms initiative in Spain in 2021.
It consists of a collaborative digital platform that seeks to empower rural actors with strategic competencies to guarantee the future of the sector.
The initiative is led by Alma Natura, CEMAS, Danone, B Corp, and Polytechnical University of Valencia. It promotes the professional exchange of knowledge with the aim of moving towards a competitive, sustainable, and fair model.


Professor Evan Simpson made a Member of the Order of Australia
The Director Emeritus of Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Professor Evan Simpson has been acknowledged with the Honour for significant service to medical science, particularly in the field of breast cancer, as an academic and researcher.
Professor Simpson has made significant contributions to research into estrogen-dependent breast cancer, leading to the development of breast cancer drugs with fewer side effects for women.
Professor Simpson is a world leader in the field of estrogen biosynthesis. His work has focused on the study of aromatase, the enzyme responsible for producing estrogen.
His research led to the concept that oestrogen action in post-menopausal women is due to local production in sites such as the breast, bone and brain.
This discovery spurred on the search breast cancer therapies that specifically inhibit aromatase expression in the breast but spare other sites where it serves a critical role for other functions, such as in the bone, brain and blood vessels.
Professor Simpson’s work also led to the creation of the first preclinical model for estrogen insufficiency, resulting in the discovery of new and unexpected roles for estrogens in both males and females, including bone metabolism in men.
His current research is focused on the role of oestrogen in several important health conditions, including obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and, of course, breast cancer.
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Progression and Potential Complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease in which the neurons that control the muscle movement become damaged and die. ALS is a progressive disease, meaning that symptoms gradually worsen.
Progression of ALS
The first symptoms of ALS include muscle weakness and stiffness. This can lead to difficulty performing everyday tasks, such as buttoning a shirt, getting up from a chair, turning a key in a lock, or climbing a set of stairs. Early symptoms may also include difficulty speaking and swallowing.
Muscle weakness in the limbs often begins in the arms or hands and may affect only one side of the body. The weakness gradually becomes more widespread, affecting both sides of the body. It also becomes more severe, leading to an inability to walk, get out of bed, or use the arms.
Eventually, the muscles in the respiratory system weaken, leading to difficulty breathing. Most individuals with ALS die as a result of respiratory failure within three to five years of the onset of symptoms.
Potential complications of ALS
Potential complications of ALS include the following:
Difficulty breathing, especially at night Respiratory failure Difficulty communicating, due to loss of speech Falls and injuries, due to muscle weakness Saliva, liquids or food entering the lungs, due to difficulty swallowing Pneumonia Pressure sores, ulcers, or skin infections Malnutrition and weight loss, due to difficulty eating Dementia Deep vein thromboses or pulmonary emboli Need for full-time care for daily living activities, including feeding


Increasing the Confidence in Adulteration and Authenticity Analysis in Food by using Trapped Ion Mobility High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Authenticity analysis needs specific markers to identify differences in food material. Ion Mobility CCS values add an additional insightful dimension that identifies and leverages more parameters to give more confidence differentiation and well as enabling measurements not capable before. Besides this, Ion Mobility will ensure cleaner chromatograms and spectra, due to this the features set will be more accurate and lead to better characterization of the origin of food. To archive, this is necessary to have fast, precise, and accurate Ion Mobility values without compromising sensitivity. The total solution of hardware and software to achieve more results with higher confidence will be explained.


Abstract
The 'manufacturer-internal relationship optimization model (MIROM)', a schematic framework for internal relationship, is proposed for the manufactured housing (MH) factory. This model emphasizes the relationship between customer order from retailers (i.e., customized MH) and the production process, indicating that these elements are not mutually exclusive. In particular, through surveys and site visits, the planning of the product mix and sequence in the MH factory is considered the most critical area of the MIROM framework. This paper aims to convey how these areas can be elevated to the planning level with innovative changes and optimization. A product mix optimization model with linear programming was developed and a sequence optimization model was created by incorporating just-in-time (JIT) approaches. The proposed strategic MIROM framework and the specific optimization models can contribute to achieving significant improvement in the internal MH production planning. It can be applied for the site-built housing industry with similar industrialized environments depending on the scale of the operation.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
The writers gratefully acknowledge the funding for this research by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing ( CMS-0229856 ). The opinions and findings expressed here, however, are those of the authors alone and not necessarily the views or positions of NSF and PATH.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes Control and Systems Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Building and Construction


What is software integration? Software integration is the process of connecting two or more software solutions to work together. This can be difficult, as each software solution is designed to work independently. However, integration is often necessary in order to get the most out of your software investment.
One of the most common integrations is between eCommerce software and shopping platforms such as Shopify or WooCommerce. Integration with eCommerce platforms is mandatory for various software solutions to function correctly. For example, it is necessary to order management software, shipping solutions, warehouse management systems, marketing automation software, dropshipping automation solutions, etc.
Integrating your eCommerce software with a shopping platform can simplify your overall workflow and save time and money. In addition, integration can provide access to features and data that would otherwise be inaccessible. The integration development with platforms like Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, or Wix allows you to access data from the online stores built on them. It can include data on products, orders, prices, shipping details, etc.
If you're considering integrating your software with eCommerce platform solutions, be sure to consult with a professional to ensure that the process goes smoothly. API2Cart is a service that allows you to connect your software with multiple shopping platforms easily. With API2Cart, you can avoid the drawbacks associated with manual integration and connect your software with Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, etc.
API2Cart provides a unified API that lets you access data from multiple shopping platforms from a single point of contact. API2Cart also offers a range of features that make it easy to manage your clients’ e-store data. As a result, API2Cart is an essential tool for any software business that needs to connect with multiple shopping platforms.


Organizations need to accurately assess credit default risk when evaluating business opportunities – being too conservative loses business unnecessarily, and too liberal loses money. Both ends hurt business performance and damage the credit manager’s reputation.
Credit managers need accurate, long-range financial predictions to support growth by extending the most favorable terms to stable counterparties while avoiding companies with significant bankruptcy risk. This is especially challenging with long timeframes, complex pricing, and sales deadline pressures.
61,000 counterparties worldwide every day for our customers.
Credit managers use our AI software to predict 90% of counterparty bankruptcies two years in advance
They improve business growth by:
Understanding financial viability counterparties
Awarding the most favorable terms to stable counterparties
Getting Sales onboard through reports showing the probability of default and its root causes


Most people believe a degree is the only way into certain careers. While it may be true for a few, most jobs these days don’t require a specific degree.
In this video, we cover:
What careers require a specific degree Why degrees are preferred for roles that don’t necessarily require it How you can get the job without the right degree anyway
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The transition to a circular economy entails the systemic transformation of entire value chains, covering design, production and consumption. Cities and regions are hubs of innovation and socio-economic transformation, with great potential to lead the transition to a circular economy. However, such a deep transformation often requires supporting mechanisms to make it happen.
The first Talk tackled the topic of establishing monitoring frameworks and identifying indicators to measure circularity in cities and regions. Are those indicators in line with the validation/assessment criteria of instruments supporting and funding the circular economy? What supporting tools are available for cities and regions? And how are they being used?
ACR+, EIB Advisory Hub, the European Commission, the Government of Navarra, the Interreg MED Green Growth community, EIT Raw Materials, Dublin City, EUCF and the ECESP invite you to attend this #EUCircularTalks to discuss how different supporting initiatives are being used by cities and regions in their transition towards a circular economy.
The event will take place on 13 December at 10:00-11:30 CET.
Programme
10:00 Opening address and welcome Piroska Kallay, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee Tjisse Stelpstra, Member of Committee of the Regions 10:10 - 11:00 Panel: Direct support initiatives for EU cities and regions transitioning towards the circular economy Supporting the circular transition with awareness building, advisory services and financing, EIB Advisory Hub EUCF – European City Facility, Energy Cities Developing raw materials into a major strength, EIT Raw Materials 11:00 - 11:30 Panel: Cities and regions fostering the circular transformation Energising the impact of green innovation in the Mediterranean, Interreg MED Green Growth community Financing circular business models with landfill tax revenues, Government of Navarre Circular economy training programme for SMEs, Dublin city


Executive functioning is cognitive processes that are necessary for the control of behavior and monitoring behaviors that facilitate attainment of chosen goals.
Executive functioning tasks are greatly impacted by ADHD.
- planning
- starting/stopping
- evaluating progress
- speeding up/slowing down
- switching tasks
- time estimation
- focusing
Which do you have the most trouble with?


radicalisation - Praktične informacije Vrijeme - Jezici English Opis The virtual study visit will take place in English, with English-French interpretation.
The rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist and terrorist offenders (VETOs) remains a challenge for frontline practitioners, policymakers and European societies as a whole. The prosecution of terrorist offenders following attacks on European soil and abroad in recent years (mainly performed by Islamist and violent right-wing extremists) has led to growing numbers of imprisoned VETOs.
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In temperate weather, the deck is often the focal point of your family’s entertainment, from cookouts to leisure. However, it often doesn’t receive the tender loving care of the rest of the home, despite its constant exposure to the elements. This oftentimes leads to extremely dangerous structural defects. If you’re interested in buying or selling a home with a deck, it helps to become familiar with what home inspectors look for in a deck.[Read more…]


The Integrated Major in Math and English (IMME) is an innovative program designed to prepare students with high-level skills in both Mathematics and English stressing an integrated, complementary mastery of these disciplines.
Four Mathematics concentration areas are available:
Finance/Actuarial, Applied, Math Pre-Education, and Theoretical.
These are combined with a strong foundation in English including composition and methods, and an opportunity for students to choose electives matching their interests.
The IMME offers undergraduates the opportunity to develop a set of skills that will equip them not only for employment and graduate school, but for long-term career success.
Students completing the program will have a competitive advantage over their peers in having both strong mathematics and communication skills.


WEDF and Luminati Networks to initiate a first-of-its-kind Data Collection Ethical Committee
Luminati Networks initiates a first-of-its-kind Data Collection Ethical Committee with The World Ethical Data Forum
Press Release published by Luminati Networks on January 14, 2021
LONDON – 14 January 2021 – Luminati Networks, a leading data collection platform dedicated to providing businesses with complete web-transparency, and the World Ethical Data Forum (WEDF) have established a pioneering Data Collection Ethical Committee (DCEC). This initiative demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to its stringent ethical protocols. Additionally, Luminati has signed a long-term agreement with the WEDF that will be highlighted in an industry-leading event set for March 17, 2021.
Luminati will also be working closely with the World Ethical Data Foundation itself and contributing to several of its related projects. One such project is the Freedoms Indexing System, a language-neutral international standard of classification for human rights information designed to ensure that it is visible and easily discoverable by anyone – not just trained researchers.
These steps are part of Luminati’s 2021 commitment to continue setting a high ethical standard for the entire data industry and the multiple market sectors it serves. The DCEC will be guided by the WEDF and involve ethicists, industry leaders, prominent academics, and technical experts. Together with the WEDF, Luminati aspires to lead the way toward industry-wide adherence to established public guidelines that address current and future complex ethical questions.
“We have been delighted by Luminati’s appetite to help establish and sustain a transformation of the public, governmental, and corporate discussion around data — which is essential because this discussion involves every institution of importance, and these institutions themselves ground the integrity of human life,” said John Marshall, CEO of the WEDF. “This is truly the most crucial issue of our time and companies, like Luminati Networks, who are the first to progress sincerely in this area, will lastingly build their reputation and excel in the data industry as a whole”.
“For a data collection network to responsibly and reliably generate high-quality and valuable data, it must be held to the highest possible ethical and transparency standards. Doing so is crucial for the protection of all market, social and academic sectors from both technical and ethical risks,” said Or Lenchner, CEO of Luminati Networks. “The data collection industry has had its fair share of controversy over the years, which spurred us to create the industry’s first and most stringent ethical framework to protect it and ensure an ethical and transparent internet” added Lenchner.
The WEDF will hold its annual event on March 17-19, where the need for a Data Collection Ethical Committee will be addressed, among a variety of other crucial issues, such as digital surveillance and privacy, cybersecurity, disinformation, algorithmic bias, media freedoms, and civil liberties. The forum has already confirmed highly influential speakers and participants, including Cory Doctorow, a multi-award-winning novelist and technology activist; Mikko Hypponen, global cybersecurity expert; and Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
About World Ethical Forum:
The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data. The event was launched in 2018 to bring a range of thought leaders to discuss subjects from privacy and algorithmic bias, to cybersecurity, media freedom, and civil liberties. Addressing these concerns and encouraging effective dialogue and collaboration within the seemingly competing worlds of technology, big business, finance, social and legacy media, and government agencies, the World Ethical Data Forum aims to help develop new conceptual tools to help us understand and engage with a time that is — even to those making the decisions — increasingly bewildering when taken as a whole, and to develop a “moral imagination” adequate to these new times.
About Luminati Networks
Luminati Networks is a leading online data collection platform dedicated to enabling organisations access the internet with complete transparency. The company’s more than 230 team members assist organisations in reaching openly available reliable web data that allows them to make real-time intelligent decisions faster and more effectively. Luminati serves thousands of customers from multiple industry and market sectors and is trusted by Fortune 100 firms. The company has been recently recognized by Gartner Inc., the leading research firm, for its data-driven contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic.


We live in a world where distance no longer holds considerable relevance. The internet and telecommunications services keep us connected to our families or businesses. The telecommunications industry has emerged as a key element of any economy, as it facilitates seamless information exchange between people and businesses. Telecom is the fifth largest and fastest-growing industry in the world but with the inclusion of advanced industry trends like 5G technology, high-speed fiber-optic networks and wireless connectivity solutions, the telecom sector must further rationalize itself in terms of operations, architecture and networks to survive the future.
How GIS plays an integral role
GIS is looked upon as one of the reliable tools to support the wireless and fiber-optic networks,proving to be a boon to the modern era of telecommunications. Advanced GIS enables telecom utilities in designing, documenting, implementing, analyzing, maintaining, and managing their network and simultaneously providing location-based information and tools for the complete infrastructure lifecycle (from feasibility study and design, FTTx design and engineering, route drafting and analysis, and permitting to the creation of As-Built drawings). A geospatial system brings all these processes together enabling telecom businesses to create models of each phase and coordinate the construction, implementation, and maintenance.
Mapping of Telecom networks and assets encompasses all possible optical fiber topologies from a telecom cable provider to customer premises based on the location of the fiber termination point. This involves site surveying, which offers details of site specifications, number and alignment of ducts, available road fibers, Lit building locations, etc. With GIS tools, all survey data are accumulated and incorporated correctly to create As-Built Drawings, construction drawings, and Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS). GIS escalates the company's ability to respond to customer inquiries by using up-to-date maps and track records for service requests, trouble reports, and other customer-related services
Market Analysis and Insights: GIS In Global Telecom Sector
According to the GIS in Telecom Market Research Report 2020 by the market research firm P&S Intelligence, the revenue generated by the GIS in the telecom market was $1.3 billion in 2019 and is projected to hit $4.6 billion by 2030 at a 12.2% CAGR between 2020 and 2030 (forecast period). In the Telecommunications market, GIS is expected to grow at a substantial rate from 2021 through 2025. By 2021-2025, the market is expected to reach $ 1.13 bn, growing at a CAGR of 12.47%. Within the forecast period, the GIS market in Telecommunications is anticipated to rise at a considerable rate. The GIS in Telecom market size will be expected to reach US$ 2046 million in 2028, growing at a CAGR of 10.2%.
Data Source: GIS in Telecom Market Report 2020,P&S Intelligence
The key factors driving the GIS in the telecom market are the soaring requirement of enhanced network connectivity in terms of its expansion and efficiency along with the provision of broadband and fiber optical services. The innovation in today's telecommunications is largely fueled by Fiber to the X (FTTx) and 5G rollout, which offers high-speed and low-latency connectivity. GIS plays a crucial role in the network installation and capacity planning of such networks, as they need to be deeply fiberized and densely distributed.
In 2019 North America dominated the GIS telecom market as a result of the enormous demand for 5G services. With telecom companies focusing heavily on rapid technological advancements, demand for GIS is surging sharply in this region. In the forecast years, Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to become the world's most lucrative GIS market for telecommunications. It is attributed to the rise in the penetration of the internet and network installation in APAC nations. Furthermore, a significant rise in investments in IT infrastructures is also expected to propel the Middle East and Africa forward in the GIS telecom market. This region is projected to register a moderate growth rate during the forecast period due to lack of skilled personnel. However, software resource augmentation services assist this region in expanding their network framework to gain a competitive edge in the international market.
Data Source: GIS in Telecom Market Report 2020,P&S Intelligence
This decade is likely to see continued investment in telecommunications projects around the world as businesses becoming more reliant on fast and efficient telecommunications infrastructures. The Indian telecom industry being the second largest in the world in terms of its size and revenue, established various private and government businesses to meet the global inflated consumer demand of the telecom sector.
AABSyS IT is a leading service provider who offers reliable and cost-effective services to the global Telecom industry. The company has deep domain expertise and strong knowledge in the telecom industry and have successfully supported several customers in Europe, Australia, US and India in FTTx design and drafting services, Architecture and Engineering (A&E) services, and Site Acquisition, Environment and Design (SAED) services with a purpose to support the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) service providers globally in planning, designing, managing, and upgrading telecommunications networks. In the years to come, investing in geospatial data and technology will help telecommunications companies to strengthen network performance, reduce downtime and improve customer value.


Abstract
The successive transition to downstream taxation in German tax law results in under- rather than double taxation of public
pensions. This holds true if special expenses induced by social security payments are assigned to pension insurance payments and received pensions respectively following the approach of the „Rürup Commission“ and the legislator. The extent of under-taxation is determined by both the expected development of pensions and the applied benchmark. Using the benchmark employed by the jurisdiction and the vast majority of the literature indicates an under-taxation of 11.4 % whereas a „systematic“ benchmarking provides a value of 8.4 %. Under-taxation of public pensions could be reduced significantly without causing double taxation issues if the taxation of public pensions was increased appropriately. This new system would not have to be adjusted to changes in expected pensions if it was based on the systematic benchmark. In contrast, using the „jurisdiction/literature“ benchmark requires a permanent modification of the tax system in case of a variation of expected pensions.


Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling
Accessing and sampling subglacial environments deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet presents several challenges to existing drilling technologies. With over half of the ice sheet believed to be resting on a wet bed, drilling down to this environment must conform to international agreements on environmental stewardship and protection, making clean hot-water drilling the most viable option. Such a drill, and its water recovery system, must be capable of accessing significantly greater ice depths than previous hot-water drills, and remain fully operational after connecting with the basal hydrological system. The Subglacial Lake Ellsworth (SLE) project developed a comprehensive plan for deep (greater than 3000 m) subglacial lake research, involving the design and development of a clean deep-ice hot-water drill. However, during fieldwork in December 2012 drilling was halted after a succession of equipment issues culminated in a failure to link with a subsurface cavity and abandonment of the access holes. The lessons learned from this experience are presented here. Combining knowledge gained from these lessons with experience from other hot-water drilling programmes, and recent field testing, we describe the most viable technical options and operational procedures for future clean entry into SLE and other deep subglacial access targets.
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On this article he mentions about land disputes are related to other factors such as land administration. A solid land administration will hugely reduce the number ofland disputes. According to the Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning, the root of land dispute is ownership proof and inequality in land possession. Minister Sofyan Djalil noted that mostÂ disputes are among individuals, reaching 56.2% (6,071 cases) of all land disputes in Indonesia. Ambiguity on the certainty over land ownership leads to unlawful landÂ possession. Squatters, for example, often consider the land they inhabit is theirs. This creates enormous problems in land procurement for projects.
Eddy Leks has been recommended by Legal500, asialaw Profiles, Chambers&Partners, IFLR1000 on corporate and mergers acquisition, construction and real estate, and commercial dispute resolution.


Toronto Workplace Discrimination Lawyer
Discrimination of any kind is a dehumanizing experience, which can be particularly hurtful when it occurs in a professional environment like the workplace. Full-time employees spend almost as much time at work (or working remotely) as they do at home. When discrimination affects employment prospects, income, or day-to-day work experience, the impact cannot be underestimated, and employers who engage in or allow discriminatory conduct must be held accountable.
At
Haynes Law Firm, we help employees who have experienced various forms of discrimination, from subtle micro-aggressions affecting their ability to advance to overt displays, such as termination after disclosing a pregnancy. Our firm’s founder, Paulette Haynes, has dedicated nearly 30 years to the practice of employment law and has worked with both employers and employees on a wide range of discrimination matters. Paulette understands how intimidating it can be for an employee, particularly one who has been made to feel less than, to hold their employer accountable for unfair treatment. Our firm offers employees accessible and empathetic legal representation with the experience necessary to successfully hold employers liable for discriminatory conduct in litigation or through administrative channels. Grounds For Discrimination Under the Human Rights Code
Provincial legislation protects employees from discrimination based on several enumerated grounds under the
Human Rights Code. Federally regulated employees have similar protections under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Grounds for discrimination under both include (but are not limited to): Race Age Disability Family Status Sexual Orientation Gender Identity or Expression Pregnancy Creed Citizenship Discrimination Applies Whether Grounds Are Perceived or Factual
In some cases, an employee’s race, gender, sexual orientation, age, creed, or family status may be incorrectly perceived. Employees may still have a valid discrimination claim if they are discriminated against based on an erroneous perception. To demonstrate discrimination, a person must only establish that they were mistreated due to the perception that they were a member of a protected class.
Defining Workplace Discrimination
Discrimination takes many forms and can often be subtle, making it difficult to identify in some cases. Often, discrimination in a workplace is systemic, and those who engage in it may not even realize their biases or their impact on various workplace decisions. In other cases, the reasons for certain behaviours are made extremely clear, particularly in instances of harassment or violence. Biases and stereotypes can affect a wide variety of workplace issues, such as:
Hiring decisions; Opportunities for career advancement; Workplace discipline; Harassment and violence; Dress codes and other internal policies; and Decisions around workplace accommodation, or leaves. Choosing the Best Forum for a Discrimination Claim
An employee can choose to bring a discrimination claim before an administrative board, such as the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, or in court by filing a civil claim. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. The ideal forum typically depends on the desired outcome.
While certainly more costly, a civil claim has the potential for greater financial compensation if successful. A judge presiding over a trial is more likely to award financial damages than other relief types, such as reinstatement. Administrative boards also award monetary damages; however, the amount is usually much more modest.
If you seek a different remedy, such as a change in policy at your workplace, or reinstatement to a role after termination, an administrative law claim might be the best option. Administrative forums are more likely to order specific performance remedies than a court and can be an excellent and cost-effective forum to facilitate change.
There are limitation periods to keep in mind, as well. Claims before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario must be brought within
one year of the discriminatory incident. In contrast, civil claims have a limitation period of two years from the date the conduct was discovered or ought to have been discovered.
No matter how you opt to proceed,
Haynes Law Firm has the necessary experience to set you up for success. Paulette Haynes is a passionate litigator with extensive experience advocating before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and at all levels of provincial court. Her meticulous attention to detail, extensive preparation, and compelling advocacy makes her a daunting opponent before any tribunal or in a courtroom. For Highly Skilled Representation in Employment Discrimination Claims, Contact Haynes Law Firm
Toronto employment lawyer Paulette Haynes and her team of employment professionals at
Haynes Law Firm work with employees (and employee candidates) who have experienced discrimination in the workplace. The Haynes Law Firm team has worked on both sides of this issue for nearly three decades and is privy to the various tactics used by employers to avoid liability in workplace discrimination matters. To ensure you receive fair compensation or a remedial remedy appropriate for your circumstances, contact the team at Haynes Law Firm. Please fill out the online form or call 416 -593-2731.


Since launching at UCL, The Active Bystander Programme has trained nearly 30,000 students and student staff, empowering them to identify and challenge poor behaviour to help create a safer and more inclusive environment. But how did we get here?
Zero Tolerance Project, 2015-2018
In 2015 UCL and Students’ Union UCL launched the Zero Tolerance to Sexual Harassment Project, which aimed to eliminate experiences of sexual harassment at UCL.
This included the Zero Tolerance Pledge, signed by academic departments to signal their commitment never to tolerate sexual harassment, and to always support students and staff who experience it. These academic departments also ran Zero Tolerance Workshops for new students in 2015/16.
The Active Bystander Programme, 2018 – today
Following the success of the Zero Tolerance Project, Students’ Union UCL sought to create a programme that addressed a greater range of issues faced by UCL students.
This led to the development of UCL’s Active Bystander Programme, a prevention programme that aims to ensure all students understand bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct, and how to practically intervene if they witness or experience any of these unacceptable behaviours on campus or beyond. This programme involved an online module and a live in-person workshop.
Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the workshops moved online. This continued throughout 2021 and the beginning of 2022, with thousands of students participating in online Zoom workshops run by student workshop leaders.
By mid 2022 some workshops slowly transitioned back on campus and the programme began to train Students’ Union staff, with unique training on bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct in the workplace.
Almost 30,000 students have completed Active Bystander Training since its conception, with workshops taking place in Bloomsbury, Canary Wharf, and Surrey campuses, alongside the two-year stint on Zoom!
The future
From September 2022, most workshops will take place on campus. Live in-person workshops will ensure all new students understand what constitutes bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct, and how to safely intervene if they witness any of these behaviours.
We will continue to pursue the long standing aims of the Active Bystander Programme, namely:
To ensure all new and returning students are trained on the Active Bystander course To ensure every student is aware about how to report any incident(s) that take place at UCL and/or remotely To ensure every student feels comfortable to safely intervene in situations that include bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct To deliver Active Bystander training to Students' Union clubs and societies as part of compulsory training For students to feel safe during their time at UCL


REBEL Crit, REBEL EM - By Cheng Ng - September 26, 2022
Article: Kumar M et al. Thromboelastography-Guided Blood Component Use in Patients With Cirrhosis With Nonvariceal Bleeding: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Hepatology. 2020;71(1):235-246. PMID: 31148204 Clinical Question: Does a TEG-guided transfusion strategy lead to lower use of blood products compared with standard practice (guided by PT and INR) in acute non-variceal bleeding among patients with advanced cirrhosis? Author’s Conclusion: “Among patients with advanced cirrhosis with coagulopathy and nonvariceal upper GI bleeding, TEG guided transfusion strategy leads to a significant lower use of blood components compared with SOC (transfusion guided by INR and PLT count), without an increase in failure to control bleed, failure to prevent rebleed, and mortality.” Our Conclusion:Overall, we agree with the authors’ findings. Patients with advanced cirrhosis and nonvariceal upper GI bleeding transfused using a TEG-guided strategy required less FFP, platelets, and cryoprecipitate. In addition, they experienced fewer transfusion-related reactions, with no difference in mortality rates compared to the SOC group. We would advocate for using a TEG-guided transfusion strategy in this patient population as it would conserve precious resources while obtaining similar health outcomes. However, EGD results confirming nonvariceal bleeding would likely be unavailable outside the ICU.


NFTs have potential to work within real estate transactions due to their irreplaceable nature.
In the US use of NFTs in real estate transactions is increasing. For example, NFTs have been used for rental property auctions and real estate mortgage transactions.
Under current Korean law, however, the use of NFTs face potential restriction if they can be considered as securities under the Capital Markets Act.
If the NFT is determined to be a security, then the issuer would face restrictions such as registration as a security issuer, licensing requirements as a securities exchange, and securities registration and acceptance limitation, etc.).
If the NFT is determined as a security, the use of the innovative financial service exception process to avoid regulatory restrictions would be required.


At ecda, we deliver data projects to demonstrate the power of analytics in supporting decision making in policy and practice in public services. To support good decisions, our projects must apply the right analytical methods and in the right way. We've established a Methods Board to support us in that process.
Alex Quiroz Flores
Alejandro Quiroz Flores is a Reader (Associate Professor) and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex and a member of the ecda Board.


Researcher Profiles Daniel T. Starczynowski, Ph.D.
2020 Funding recipient
Exploring the contribution of the microbiome to the pathogenesis of myelodysplastic syndromes
Discovery Research Grant 2020
PROJECT SUMMARY
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) is a common, age-related process in which an abnormal blood-forming hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) disproportionally contributes to blood formation, but also increases the risk of hematologic malignancies, such as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This phenomenon is virtually non-existent in children but is estimated to affect >30% of the 60-and-older age group. The cause of CH is thought to be due to mutations that occur in HSC. Many of the genes most commonly mutated in CH, such as DNMT3A, are also recurrently mutated in MDS and AML. Current treatment options for MDS include chemotherapy and/or bone marrow transplant, both of which can be taxing even for an otherwise healthy, young individual. Despite a better understanding of the mechanisms of MDS pathogenesis, new therapy development and identification of therapeutic targets has been limited. Therefore, there is an urgent unmet need to understand the progression of the pre-malignant state (CH) to overt disease, such as MDS. Epidemiologic studies have confirmed that individuals with autoimmune diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) or a history of chronic infection have increased lifetime risk of MDS, though the exact mechanism still remains unknown. Inflammatory stress may thus be a critical contributor of CH and progression to MDS. Hence, the current research proposal is focused on understanding how chronic inflammation arising from compromised intestinal permeability and gut microbiota-induced signaling influences the progression of MDS. During the previous funding period, we have determined that intestinal barrier injury and alterations in the gut microbiota directly contribute to the selection of mutant HSCs. Moreover, we have identified that mutant HSCs recognize a specific bacterial metabolite that contributes to the early stages of MDS development.
We hypothesize that chronic inflammatory signals, such as ones resulting from compromised intestinal permeability, mediate ALPK1- TIFA activation and a competitive advantage of pre-leukemic and MDS HSPCs. Therefore, the objective of this proposal is to address the gut microbiota’s role in the initiation and progression of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) to MDS. We will investigate the role of altered microbiota on pre-leukemic stem cell function (Aim 1), determine the requirement of ALPK1-TIFA in pre-leukemic and MDS HSPCs during intestinal-induced inflammation (Aim 2), and examine the role of the microbial bi-product ADP-heptose on the competitive advantage of pre-leukemic and MDS HSPCs (Aim 3).


The global power tools market size was valued at USD 25.87 billion in 2021. The market is projected to grow from USD 26.61 billion in 2022 to USD 35.13 billion by 2029, exhibiting a CAGR of 4.0% during the forecast period. The global COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented and staggering, with experiencing lower-than-anticipated demand across all regions compared to pre-pandemic levels. Based on our analysis, the global market exhibited a decline of -0.6% in 2020 as compared to 2019.
Power tools are primarily used to cut, wrench, saw drill, and polish materials. Various industries such as automotive, construction, aerospace, oil and gas, petrochemical, and others, have transformed using handy and energy-efficient tools. These tools provide comfort while operating that allows for achieving elevated results.
The global market is expected to grow significantly in the forecast period, owing to the adoption of cordless equipment resulting in increased operating hours. However, factors such as high costs and maintenance of moving parts and fluctuations in prices of raw materials are hampering the market’s growth.
Companies sell their products in two divisions, including professional and consumer products. Professional products include corded or cordless tools, such as pneumatic and fasteners (wrenches and drivers, drills, saws, guns, nails, concrete, masonry anchors, and others). On the other side, hedge trimmers, string trimmers, lawnmowers, and edgers are a few gardening products that fall under the consumer product division.
COVID-19 IMPACT Slowdown in Production Activities to Hamper Market Growth Slowdown in Production Activities to Hamper Market Growth
Considering the starting point of the COVID 19 impact, Wuhan has been a traditional manufacturing base for various sectors. It is also the area of modern industrial change, which refers to optoelectronic technology, automotive manufacturing, iron manufacturing, and steel manufacturing.
Various industries that impact the tools market, such as automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, energy, and construction, are drastically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The automotive sector is facing a downfall, which, in turn, could further impact the sales volume of metal bellows suppliers. For instance, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) stated that car sales in China fell by 92% in the first half of February 2020.
Additionally, trade volumes are also expected to fall steeper in sectors with complex value chains, particularly automotive and electronics products. Factory activities were knotted down across most of Asia in March 2020 as the coronavirus paralyzed the economic activity across the world. This is primarily due to the sharp fall in export in Japan and South Korea that overshadowed a modest improvement in China.
LATEST TRENDS Development of Multi-Purpose Products and their Accessories to Lay Foundation for Future Growth
Companies such as Atlas Copco AB, Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd., and others are developing energy-efficient power tool products with innovative technologies. Industry leaders are also focusing on introducing multi-purpose machines that can be used precisely while conducting numerous operations.
On the other hand, consumers are banking on cordless power tool products that are easy to operate on high-torque, light in weight, compact, and efficient. Therefore, consumers’ increasing demand for error-less products allows companies to achieve their height of disruptive innovations. For instance, in January 2020, Hilti Corporation introduced a suite of almost 40 new tools, accessories, and systems. The newly introduced tools include a battery-powered cordless fastening tool denoted as ‘BX 3-BT’ and other tools and accessories.
As a result, the development of innovative products is projected to bolster the demand in the future ahead.
DRIVING FACTORS Expansion of Construction Industry and Manufacturing Sector in Emerging Economies to Boost Growth
The rapid expansion of the construction industry is a major factor influencing the growth of the global market. Key players are manufacturing both cord and cordless tools that are allowing construction workers to use them across the applications. Among corded and cordless tools, cordless tools are primarily preferred in the construction industry. Small and mid-sized manufacturing enterprises are bound to use these tools due to their flexibility and capability to deliver productive solutions to their customers.
Additionally, to provide better products to end-users, leading manufacturers across the globe are collaborating with each other. It allows them to develop efficient products, especially for employees working in the construction industry and manufacturing sector. For instance, in May 2018, Robert Bosch Tool Corporation and Triax Technologies, Inc. partnered to develop a tracking solution device, allowing construction firms to track the equipment & tool location and monitor real-time worker, asset utilization, and safety data.
RESTRAINING FACTORS Price Fluctuations of Raw Materials to Hinder Power Tools Market Growth
Power tools are expected to generate huge demand from industrialized countries such as the U.S., the U.K., Japan, China, India, and others. However, price fluctuation of raw materials is an important factor affecting the growth of the market. Generally, these tools are made up of materials, such as steel, metal, and aluminum.
These materials are usually imported from other countries, and the price fluctuations majorly depend on the exchange rates and increasing volatility of markets. Hence, regular price fluctuation in raw materials is primarily hampering the growth of the market.
Power Tools Market Report Scope and Segmentation ATTRIBUTES DETAILS ESTIMATED YEAR 2022 BASE YEAR 2021 FORECAST YEAR 2030 HISTORICAL YEAR 2017-2021 UNIT Value (USD Million/Billion) BY REGION North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa SEGMENTATION By Mode of Operation Analysis Electric Segment to Depict Highest Growth Rate with Rising Demand from Construction Sector
On the basis of mode of operation, the market is categorized into electric, pneumatic, and others, including, hydraulic tools.
Among these, the electric tools segment includes cordless and corded tools. It would remain dominant and is also anticipated to witness notable growth. Additionally, it is being observed that the global market has revolutionized the work culture of construction, automotive industry, and others, as it saves time and efforts required for conducting various operations.
The demand for pneumatic tools is estimated to slow down as electric tools are expected to be replaced. Pneumatic tools work on compressed air and are conventional but are resulting in the overuse of energy. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, tools that are powered with compressed air are less efficient for any manufacturing plant. Also, such tools are frequently used inaccurately.
Other tools, such as hydraulic power tools are anticipated to showcase moderate growth over the forecast period.
By Tool Type Analysis Material Removal Tools across Industrial Applications to Witness High Growth during Forecast Period
Based on tool type, the market is divided into fastening & drilling tools, material removal tools, sawing & cutting tools, demolition tools, and others, which include routing tools.
The material removal tools segment is anticipated to witness the highest growth, owing to their demand across car factories, metal processing workshops, and other industrial sites. Material removal tools, such as grinders, sanders, and others, also exhibit considerable penetration across various residential and industrial projects.
The fastening and drilling tools segment was estimated to hold the highest power tools market share in 2020. This is attributed to advancements inculcated in the drilling technology by manufacturers. These advancements have enhanced resistance to unbalanced temperature, high resistance to shocks and vibrations, and increased durability.
Sawing and demolition tools are projected to grow moderately as they have not much hold compared to the drilling and material removal tools.
By Application Analysis Increased Spending Capability and Rising Households to Help Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Tools Depict Highest CAGR
The do-it-yourself (DIY) segment is projected to have a remarkable impact on the market owing to the growth and trend witnessed by DIY enthusiasts. This is mainly due to the increasing spending capability and rising households across developed and developing countries.
Additionally, there is a broad spectrum of creative DIY enthusiasts who are focusing on getting equipped with the necessary power tools. This, in turn, has attracted market players to focus on manufacturing tools that can be used across the DIY application.
The industrial segment is expected to witness moderate growth in the forecast period. The dominance of this sector in terms of market share is attributable to the high demand for tools across the aerospace, automotive, energy and power, construction, and other sectors.
REGIONAL INSIGHTS Asia Pacific Power Tools Market Size, 2021 (USD billion) ASIA PACIFIC USD 9.11 billion
By region, the global market is segmented into North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa.
Asia Pacific has proven to be the dominant and exponentially growing region. The demand for these tools is directly proportional to the increasing industrialization, infrastructure development, and urbanization. Coupled with this, the growing number of Chinese players that are gaining control over the market and providing tools at competitive pricing would aid growth. Moreover, India is expected to witness significant growth in the market.
India to Propel Due to Heavy Development of Manufacturing Sector in Asia Pacific
India is projected to develop at the most promising pace in the market, outpacing the rest of emerging markets across the globe. Favorable government policies to boost the manufacturing sector capabilities across the country can be identified as one of the prime reasons behind the development of the market in the country. Furthermore, increasing investments by the Indian tool manufacturers in the research and development activities to develop novel products are augmenting market developments in the region. Governments in multiple states are offering attractive subsidies to set up manufacturing R&D facilities in their respective jurisdiction to increase tool manufacturing and subsequent sales in the region. Additionally, increasing automotive manufacturing clusters and heavy development of the construction sector are estimated to develop at a decent pace in the regional market.
Following Asia Pacific, the Middle East & Africa is also projected to have a positive impact on the market. It is mainly attributable to the growing industrialization across the construction, power and energy, and oil & gas sectors. Furthermore, several players are also finding these regions to be potential zones to expand their business portfolios.
Europe and North America are expected to grow at a steady rate during the forecast period. These regions are considered to be relatively mature and therefore are not able to witness substantial construction expenditures. Similarly, Latin America is also expected to grow at a very moderate rate, owing to the stable growth of the industrial sector.
KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS Major Players to Focus on Acquiring Small and Mid-Sized Organizations
Prominent market participants have a strong presence in Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe. Hence, these companies are focusing on acquiring small and mid-sized companies with a strong local presence in the market. It allows them to expand their businesses and customer bases in other regions/countries. Textron manufactures electrical and utility tools, test and measurement instruments, and diagnostics for tool & home product segments. This strategic acquisition enhances the product portfolio of Emerson.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. to Introduce Industry-leading Tools for Multiple Outdoor Applications
Dewalt, a subsidiary of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., emphasizes on maximizing the business by strategically introducing newer products for outdoor applications. For instance, in February 2021, Dewalt added outdoor power tools to its lineup in preparation for lawn & home maintenance season and spring landscaping. The newly introduced tools include Electric Cold Water Pressure Washer of 2400 PSI (DWPW2400), corded 18-In. Chainsaw (DWCS600) and String Trimmer Kit (DCST972B).
LIST OF KEY COMPANIES PROFILED: Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany) Stanley, Black & Decker, Inc. (U.S.) Hilti Corporation (Liechtenstein) Atlas Copco AB (Sweden) Makita Corporation (Japan) Emerson Electric Co. (U.S.) Hitachi Koki Ltd. (Japan) Ingersoll Rand (U.S.) Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong) Enerpac Tool Group (U.S.) KEY INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS: December 2020 –Hilti Corporation announced the expansion of its rotary hammer tools and combination portfolio by introducing ‘TE 70-ATC/AVR’, the influential SDS-Max-Combination Hammer. The newly introduced tool delivers ~40% faster concrete drilling. February 2020– Makita Corporation launched an innovative nailer named 18 Gauge 2” Brad Nailer (AF506). It is a cordless power tool and features better ergonomics. It can be used on hard and soft wooden surfaces. REPORT COVERAGE An Infographic Representation of Power Tools Market
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The global power tools market report provides detailed information regarding various insights into the industry. Some of them are growth drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, regional analysis, and challenges. It further offers an analytical depiction of the market trends and estimations to illustrate the forthcoming investment pockets. The market is quantitatively analyzed from 2022 to 2029 to provide financial competency. The information gathered in the report has been taken from several primary and secondary sources.
REPORT SCOPE AND SEGMENTATION
ATTRIBUTE DETAILS Study Period 2018 – 2029 Base Year 2021 Forecast Period 2022 – 2029 Historical Period 2018 – 2020 Unit Value (USD billion) Segmentation By Mode of Operation, Tool Type, Application, and Region By Mode of Operation By Tool Type By Application By Region


Select a client whom you observed or counseled this week (other than the client used for this week’s Discussion). Then, address the following in your Practicum Journal:
Describe the client and identify any pertinent history or medical information, including prescribed medications.
Using the DSM-5, explain and justify your diagnosis for this client.
Explain whether existential-humanistic therapy would be beneficial with this client. Include expected outcomes based on this therapeutic approach.
Explain any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling this client.
Support your approach with evidence-based literature.
Part 2
Reflect on your clinical supervision experiences. Then, address the following in your Practicum Journal.
How often are you receiving clinical supervision from your preceptor?
What are the sessions like?
What is the preceptor bringing to your attention?
How are you translating these sessions to your clinical practice?


Job Market Reaching Pre Pandemic Levels; Upsurge Expected in the Coming Festive Quarter: Monster Employment Index Agritech, Retail, BFSI, Travel & Tourism & Import/Export continue to hire actively Across functional areas Finance, HR & Admin & Hospitality witness improved intent to hire Mumbai on the back of BFSI & Retail charted maximum hiring demand along with Ahmedabad & Coimbatore markets while Kolkata and Baroda saw dip in job posting activity
Recruitment activity flattened 3% across industry segments as India continued to pursue conscious hiring amid recession fears and inflation concerns. While festive demand is ongoing, jobs in India are expected to rebound in the coming quarter with positive workforce sentiments, as per Monster.com.
The Index saw decline this month, with a 2% month-on-month dip exhibiting a sluggish growth rate this month. However, several industries continued to post positive growth trends as the Indian economy continues to recover and open up post pandemic.
Apart from the Agro industry which posed a positive incline in online hiring activity, segments such as BFSI, Retail, Real Estate, Telecom, and Travel & Tourism have noted an annual growth in e-recruitment activity. Consequently, demand for roles across Finance & Accounts, HR & Admin, and Hospitality also saw an incline reflecting consistent demand for skilled talent across these segments.
Commenting on job trends for the month of August 2022, Sekhar Garisa, CEO – Monster.com, a Quess company said, “While hiring has slowed down this August due to global economic concerns, we are optimistic that jobs will bounce back in India over the coming quarter with the ongoing festive season. Retail continues to do well with improved e-commerce sales and rising footfall across stores. Moreover, India continues on its tech adaptive journey with newer technologies and consequently newer skills in demand by recruiters. It is key that workforce upskilling be taken more seriously now than ever for career growth and overall economic progress in the country.”
Agro industry sees recovery with the rise of digital innovation in line with Indian Agriculture 4.0
In August 2022, agro based industries (up 6%) saw an incline in hiring activity on the back of the digital revolution with AI, automation, blockchain, and drone tech serving as key drivers in the space. The success of agriculture 4.0, much like Industry 4.0, depends on the efficient use of tech to tackle challenges that haunt the segment as a whole. As per the Index, industries such as BFSI (up 20%), Chemicals (up 14%), Real Estate (9%), Telecom/ISP (9%), and Travel (up 3%) continue to do well. Retail (up 5%) too has fared well with a rise in hiring activity in light of the ongoing festive season.
On the other hand, Shipping/Marine (down 24%), Media & Entertainment (down 19%), and Engineering/Cement/Construction (down 18%) continued to chart maximum annual decline in hiring activity indicating lowered demand for professionals in these segments. While the IT industry (down 8%) saw a hiring dip due to ongoing start-up layoffs, great resignations, and variable pay-out trends in the sector, BPO/ITES (down 4%) saw a similar dip which could be attributed to reduced hiring across metro cities. Education (down 10%) also noted a fall given the decline in hiring across the EdTech industry. Sectors such as Home Appliances (down 17%), Garments/Textiles (down 10%), and Production/Manufacturing (down 3%) exhibited negative growth patterns. While this indicates falling demand for white collar jobs, festive hiring sentiments remain high and tend to see more demand across temp, blue collar, and gig roles.
Hiring for white collar professionals continues to surge across metros
6 out of 13 cities monitored by the Index showcased positive job demand with Coimbatore (up 13%) charting maximum growth. Mumbai (up 11%) was the strongest annual gainer among major metro-markets while Ahmedabad (up 9%) reflected a relatively encouraging trend driven by major sectors like Retail, BFSI and Advertising. Hyderabad (up 3%) witnessed positive annual growth while hiring in Delhi-NCR and Pune stayed status-quo in August 2022.
Chennai (down 4%), Kochi (down 2%), Jaipur (down 2%) saw a marginal dip in recruitment activity, Bangalore (down 8%), Chandigarh (down 8%), Baroda (down 10%) and Kolkata (down 11%) registered a substantial annual fall owing to stagnant hiring across several industries.
HR & Admin roles more in demand as companies aim to improve L&D, employee engagement activities
In line with the rising demand for talent in the BFSI industry, professionals in Finance & Accounts (up 27%) exhibited maximum annual growth in the month of August 2022, similar to past trends. HR & Admin (up 15%) and Hospitality & Travel (up 3%) roles continue to be in high demand as well indicating a greater need for professionals in respective sectors. Interestingly, Arts & Creative (up 6%) which reflected a constant dip in the last months, recorded an all-time high on account of increased demand for creatives such as graphic and interior designers.
While Engineering/ Production (down 20%) continued to exhibit the steepest annual decline among all monitored functions, Customer Service (down 15%) and Purchase/ Logistics/ Supply Chain (down 13%) also saw a huge dip in August’22 from the year ago level. Moreover, Healthcare (down 12%), Sales & Business Development (down 10%), Marketing & Communications (down 8%), Software, Hardware, Telecom (down 7%) professionals saw consequent annual decline.
NICE Workforce Optimization Recognized for Delivering Proven Business Success by Metrigy Research HR Technology News: [To share your insights with us, please write to sghosh@martechseries.com ]


Energy Transition Mechanism Partnership Trust Fund What is the fund?
The Energy Transition Mechanism Partnership Trust Fund (ETMPTF) is a multi-partner trust fund established in June 2022 under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility. It will mobilize resources for Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM), which aims to catalyze public and private capital to accelerate the transition from carbon-intensive coal-based power plants to clean energy in Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) developing member countries (DMCs).
What are the priorities?
The fund will accelerate the retirement of coal plants and transition DMCs to clean energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What kind of activities are eligible for the fund?
The fund will support projects involving one or more of the following activities:
reducing greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants through early retirement or repurposing of such plants for clean energy; increasing the share of clean energy, including through support for enhanced grid capacity; helping DMCs develop and enact policy and regulatory measures to accelerate the shift from coal to clean energy; supporting the transition to cleaner energy in a just manner (just transition). Who is eligible to receive the fund?
All DMCs are eligible for support under ETMPTF. In order to receive support, DMCs must provide strong evidence of commitment to the early retirement or repurposing of fossil fuel-fired power plants. The ETMPTF will prioritize DMCs in Southeast Asia as well as other regions that have already expressed interest in exploring ETM and ETM-related activities. Priority project locations for the first two years will be DMCs in Southeast Asia participating in the ETM pilot: Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam.
Who supports the fund?
The Government of Japan is the first financing partner of the fund.


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The Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework is Microsoft’s set of guiding principles in maintaining and improving a customer’s workload quality in the Azure Cloud.
To ensure easy adoption of the framework, there exists what are called the “five pillars of architectural excellence.” These pillars consist of Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency.
If an Azure adopter is successful in implementing and maintaining their Azure resources within the framework of the five pillars, they will produce a high-quality, stable, and efficient cloud architecture. In this blog, we will provide you with brief descriptions of each pillar and examples of how you can implement it within your Azure architecture.
Reliability
Reliability, or high availability, in the cloud is closely related to ensuring reliability on-premises with the desire to have our applications remain available 24/7 without our clients noticing any downtime. This principle is still held dear in the cloud. However, failures are seen as an inevitable consequence of several factors of cloud-hosted applications such as the complexity of distributed systems, the use of commodity hardware, dependence on external services, and volume bottlenecks.
To combat these failures is to implement the pillar of Reliability in Azure Cloud by designing the architecture around two driving forces: business requirements and failure factors. By determining business requirement metrics such as Recovery Time Objectives, Recovery Point Objectives, and Service Level Agreements, we can design the architecture to include services that provide redundancy and recovery contingencies.
Example: A mission-critical application hosted on IIS needs to remain up 99.95% of the time. By utilizing 2 or more VMs in an Availability Set, you can ensure that during VM maintenance windows, at least 1 VM is always operational. Security
One could say that security and reliability go hand in hand. For an application or service to be highly available, we need to ensure that bad actors or even inadvertent changes by internal staff cannot bring down the application or service.
To design security into cloud architecture is to provide assurances against deliberate attacks and abuse on systems with the use of security layering. Microsoft’s security services are catered to the principle of Zero Trust, meaning that we must assume a breach has already happened. By designing security measures around factors such as Identity and Access Management, Threat Protection services, Information Governance policies, Threat Detection and Response policies, etc., we can mitigate and reduce the amount of damage.
Example: A key service in Azure that can get your architecture into a stable state is Role-Based Access Control. Implementation of Privileged Identity Management and the use of the least-privileged principle will ensure legitimate identities cannot perform tasks outside of their scope. If that account is breached, the attacker can only perform the actions the identity is allowed to perform. Cost Optimization
Adoption into the cloud is not only a technological and operational journey, but a budgetary journey. It is a shift from the classic paradigm of spending upfront infrastructure costs (Capital Expenditure) into the paradigm of metered costs (Operational Expenditure) on leased infrastructure.
As a public cloud, Microsoft Azure leases the infrastructure to its customers and charges its customers on resource usage. It is important to build a cost model which depicts departmental responsibilities, captures clear requirements, and considers any constraints or tradeoffs compared to the metered billing model of Azure resources. Additionally, implementation of cost optimization practices can ensure that proper consumption is exercised by deploying policies which restrict overprovisioning. This is typically the driving factor in runaway costs. Fortunately, there are many first- and third-party tools that provide customers with a user-friendly experience when analyzing their current resource costs.
Example: CloudMonitor is a Financial Operations practitioner that specializes in developing software that aids its customers, across all departmental types, determines what is costing them in their Azure environment, and promotes recommendations not seen in the Azure Portal. Operational Excellence
The pillar of operational excellence focuses on hardening operational processes that keep applications running in production. Deployments in Azure must be reliable and predictable to avoid the chances of orphaned resources or operational pitfalls caused by human error. Developing means of automation will provide fast and accurate deployments alongside providing the ability to quickly roll back or forward an update.
Key concepts in Operational Excellence include designing applications or processes for scalability and reliability, ensuring resources are properly monitored for anomalies, provisioning repeatable infrastructure through automation such as Infrastructure as Code, and ensuring proper testing platforms are developed with CI/CD in mind.
Example: In Azure, tools such as Azure Policy can ensure best practice measures are audited and/or enforced during and after resource creation. Azure Policy can be applied at the Management group, Subscription, Resource Group, and Resource type levels. Performance Efficiency
The pillar of performance efficiency focuses on ensuring workloads can meet the demands by scaling in an efficient manner. The conventional means of ensuring workloads, like servers, meet demand is by purchasing overprovisioned resources.
This way of thinking ensures the capacity for peak usage is supplied, but this can be costly in a cloud setting. Rather, this pillar supplies concepts that can assist in designing workloads for scalability, performance, and capacity by intertwining specific resources that can be dedicated to vertically or horizontally scaling the infrastructure to meet those peak usage demands.
Example: In Azure, tools such as Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be used to host similarly configured VMs and during peak usage times based on metrics, can increase resource size such as CPU or memory to meet the demands. Alternatively, scale sets can deploy more VMs to distribute the load. Next Steps: Reinforcing Your Cloud Home with a Strong Foundation
Your cloud journey does not have to be a total manual effort or a hodge-podge of ad hoc changes to deal with immediate challenges. It can be a smoothly running vehicle to propel your business further by taking advantage of everything the cloud has to offer while maintaining a posture which promotes security, high availability, and a reduction of administrative overhead.
Microsoft offers multiple tools such as Azure Advisor, Azure Score, as well as the Azure Well-Architected Review which can guide you through the evaluation and decision-making process in a simplified and easy way. However, having a certified partner providing professional experience in evaluating and implementing the recommended changes can take you even further.
To learn more about the well-architected framework, its principles, and how it can help reinforce your cloud journey, contact Arraya today.
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This course was last updated April 2017 Counterterrorism in the United Kingdom
Tracing the UK response to violent subnational terrorism back to its efforts against the PIRA in the 1970s through the 1990s, these modules demonstrate how the UK counterterrorism community recognized long ago the serious threat to national security that subnational violence poses, and how its response to the recent violent terrorist activities of al-Qaeda is situated within an environment informed by the earlier “Irish Troubles.” Additionally, the modules provide an overview of the contemporary counterterrorism organizational structure within the UK, and the challenges it faces in a world of increasing vulnerability and uncertainty.
After completing this series of modules, the student should be able to:
Trace the UK counterterrorism response from the PIRA to al-Qaeda. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of winning the “hearts and minds” of the public, from a counterterrorism standpoint. Discuss the significance of the UK’s multilateral approach to security and counterterrorism. Identify and differentiate between the roles and responsibilities of various UK counterterrorism agencies/entities. Describe how the security environment has changed, post-9/11 and 7/7, and determine how UK counterterrorism efforts reflect that changing environment. Demonstrate an understanding of UK counterterrorism policy: who determines it, who enforces it, and how it progresses through the UK Government.
Here are a sample of suggested books for those interested in additional reading on topics related to Counterterrorism in the United Kingdom
Ed Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, W. W. Norton & Company (November 2003) Patrick Bishop and Eamonn Mallie, The Provisional I.R.A., Corgi Books (July, 1988) Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, Penguin Books (June 2012)


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In the 1980s, the national organization 9to5 set up a hotline for women to call and report discrimination and harassment in the workplace. This toll-free hotline was staffed by volunteers and eventually a paid staff person who would dole out advice and referrals from a massive binder filled policies, laws, and legal aid organizations that could help women challenge illegal firings, sexual threats, stress, lack of affordable and accessible childcare, and other issues that many women workers dismissed as “part of the job.” In 1990, 9to5 secured the funds to set up a permanent job survival hotline. In March 1990, the hotline reported 1,210 calls with approximately 11,000 callers who could not get through because the line was busy. In this colloquium, I will share the archival materials I have uncovered in my research and place the Hotline into a historical context that explores how organizations have used the “hotline” system as a tool to organize against discrimination and violence.
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START is publishing an infographic series exploring findings from its Tracking Cartels project, a Joint Centers of Excellence project supported by the DHS Office of University Programs. Each week, for four weeks in June 2020, START will release a new infographic that depicts cartel operations in Mexico, specifically detailing: Major cartel operational zones; the violent rise of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG); violence in Michoacán over control of the avocado trade; and violence in Guanajuato over control of illicit petroleum.
START's Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) is leading the joint research project with partnering DHS Centers of Excellence, the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center (CINA) and the Center for Acceleration Operational Efficiency (CAOE). The project aims to develop a multi-pronged approach to triangulate open source information about TCOs, including major Cartels and gangs (e.g. MS-13), operating in Mexico and the Northern Triangle. The purpose is to use open-source information to build a holistic and accurate understanding of TCOs’ activities in Mexico and the Northern Triangle for analyses and operational decision-making.
The team has created a series of infographics that help illustrate their findings. Authored by Samuel Henkin, the first infographic details major cartel operational zones in Mexico and highlights these key points:
Major cartel fragmentation has led to increasingly adaptable, agile, and competitively violent criminal organizations. The geographical expansion of cartels has led to greater territorial contestation over drug plazas, trafficking routes, and illicit markets. Seeking greater profit, cartels are diversifying and increasing in criminal density through criminal activities like extortion, kidnapping, and money laundering.
Infographics will be released weekly in June 2020 and will be available on the Tracking Cartels Infographic Series webpage here.


On January 22, 2022, the world mourned the passing of Thich Nhat Hanh at his home temple in Vietnam at the age of 95. Known affectionately as "Thay" (pronounced “Tay”) by his followers, he is undoubtedly one of the most well-known Buddhists of the modern era, and his impact in bringing Buddhism to the world was profound. He was a pivotal teacher for me on my Buddhist path, and his passing is deeply felt.
Born in 1926 and ordained at 16, Nhat Hanh went to the U.S. in 1961 at the age of 35 to study and teach at Princeton and Columbia Universities. On returning home in 1964, he dove into anti-war activism as the Vietnam War escalated. He founded the Order of Inter-being, which promoted “engaged Buddhism” through nonviolence, mindfulness, and social service. Both “Engaged Buddhism” and “Mindfulness” will always be closely associated with Nhat Hanh, who is credited for bringing both movements to worldwide consciousness.
Nhat Hanh explains, “Buddhism means to be awake—mindful of what is happening [...] If you are awake, you cannot do otherwise than act compassionately to help relieve suffering you see around you. So Buddhism must be engaged in the world. If it is not engaged, it is not Buddhism.” He speaks about mindfulness as a means to weather the storms of life and realize happiness, encouraging us to always “return to the breath,” even while doing routine chores like sweeping and washing dishes. “I try to live every moment like that—relaxed, dwelling peacefully in the present moment—and respond to events with compassion.”
In a remarkable 1966 encounter, Nhat Hanh met civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He greatly admired Dr. King for his efforts to promote social justice and told Dr. King he was a bodhisattva, an enlightened being. Dr. King, on his part, was so impressed with Thay’s efforts to promote reconciliation between the U.S.-backed South and communist North Vietnam that he later nominated Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nhat Hanh’s efforts in 1966 to campaign against the war angered both North and South Vietnam’s governments, and he was barred from returning home, leaving him, he said, “like a bee without a beehive.” He was not allowed to return until 2005. Over the preceding decades, he founded a retreat center in southern France he named Plum Village—his home for most of the rest of his life—and established ten more centers all over the world where he visited and conducted retreats, including Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California.
Over nearly eight decades, Nhat Hanh refined his teachings into concepts meant to be accessible to all. He was a well-read and prolific writer, authoring over 100 books. Through his books, talks, and retreats, he introduced Zen Buddhism, at its essence, as peace through compassionate listening.
After suffering a stroke in 2014 that left him unable to speak, Nhat Hanh’s passing was not unexpected, but still painful for his followers. He envisioned the meaning of death—both his and others—as a transformation from one manifestation to another, where nothing is ever really lost, only changed. In his book No Death, No Fear, he spoke about his mother’s passing, “I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea [...] Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tender, very sweet...wonderful! Each time my feet touched the earth, I knew my mother was there with me.”
Thich Nhat Hanh’s passing will be felt deeply by those of us who cherished his message of peace and compassion, and a life that inspired action. A memorial service held in honor of
Nhat Hanh at Deer Park highlighted the theme, “A cloud never dies.” “That’s the theme of the seven-day service we are holding for our teacher,” said Brother Phap Dung, a dharma teacher at the monastery. “It means our teacher doesn’t die; he just manifests differently now. The cloud becomes rain, becomes grass, becomes tea. He’s not dead now, he’s just in a different form.”
In Gassho,
Rev. Ellen Crane


"A well-planned and designed terrace is like an open oasis for socializing and relaxation amid the bustle of a busy city. Most people pay a lot of attention to making the interiors more comfortable and congenial, the outdoors deserve the same. The design intent should be to create a biophilic transient space, which connects the home with these nature-inspired elements,” says Gauri Satam, co-founder of architecture and interior design firm unTag.
Even on a shoe-string budget, it is possible to transform a lacklustre terrace into a luxurious lounge. Perched on the 15th floor of a Mumbai highrise, the White Blue Nest is proof. Designed for a city dweller constantly on the go, this 400-square-foot terrace was envisioned as a space where the homeowner could return to to disconnect from the urban cacophony. The end result was an invigorating blue-and-white oasis built using a sustainable approach. Here are a few tips on how you can integrate this approach when designing your own terrace:
1. Design around a theme
A winning theme lays the groundwork for your terrace makeover. It can be bold, bright, cheerful and or soothing with a garden-like vibe. When designing this terrace, Gauri and studio co-founder Tejesh Patil wanted to represent the feel of sandy beaches and the deep blue hues of the Arabian Sea along Mumbai's coast. "This quaint terrace, is perennially blooming with various seasonal flowers, alongside a tropical green palette, while creating a microclimate of its own," says Tejesh.


The Gambia’s National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with their Senegalese counterpart – La Société Nationale d’électricité du Sénégal (Senelec) – on March 31 this year. The PPA follows a meeting between NAWEC’s Managing Director, Nani Juawara, and the Director-General of Senelec, Pape Mademba Biteye, in Dakar, enabling NAWEC to purchase and use up to 30 MW of Senegalese power this year, followed by up to 50 MW for a subsequent five years.
Electricity will be imported through the Soma and Brikama substations of the Gambia River Basin Development Organisation (OMVG)- a transnational collective comprising Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, The Gambia and Senegal.
Over 40% of The Gambia’s population lacks access to electricity. However, with last month’s PPA effective, the Greater Banjul Area comprising the Banjul, Kanifing and Brikama cities in the western region of The Gambia – home to over two-thirds of the country’s population – will have sufficient power supply to match recent rises in demand. The electricity to be sold is generated in Senegal’s Sambangalou Hydroelectric Plant, totalling 128 MW capacity, marking major strides forward for intra-MSGBC cooperation following the Ninth World Water Forum hosted in Dakar a mere week prior to the PPA’s signing.
Since July 2020, the World Bank has run The Gambia’s Electricity Restoration and Modernization Project, using a $43 million grant from the International Development Association to revitalize the nation’s energy sector and supply. It is thanks to this and a financing partnership with the African Development Bank and Kuwaiti Fund that the OMVG transmission lines were erected connecting The Gambia to its neighbour, Senegal’s grid, with the potential to carry up to 150 MW. This initiative also saw the renovation of OMVG’s substations, linking up a refreshed and resilient network for the first time, writing a stronger energy future for The Gambia.
Alongside Mauritania, Senegal has one of the highest per capita renewable energy generation ratios in the region- 10.029 W, as opposed to just 1.488 W for The Gambia. However, the Gambia River on which Sambangalou’s electricity generation relies, runs from Guinea-Conakry through to The Gambia, emphasizing transnational cooperation as essential for the region’s energy resilience, and furthermore that partnerships like The Gambia and Senegal’s new PPA will light the way forward towards decarbonized, secure energy access for west Africa.
MSGBC Oil, Gas & POWER 2022 Under the patronage of H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal, MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power will once again take place in Dakar, Senegal, with the event serving as a catalyst for investment and multi-sector development in 2022. To find out more visit msgbcoilgasandpower.com or contact sales@eventr.itwareworks.com.